Asian shares extended gains in opening trades today, taking cues from Wall Street as focus shifts to earnings results from U.S. tech giants in the week, while a still strong dollar pressured the Japanese yen to fresh 34-year lows. Odds are the earnings reports that we see over the next few weeks will be positive, but obviously there\'s still issues around what the Fed will do the next. It\'s too early to say that problems in the Middle East have gone away. There are lots of things that could cause volatility between now and the end of the year. And so, we\'re probably coming to a more constrained, more volatile period for markets. In major currencies today, the beleaguered yen kept hitting fresh 34-year lows. It firmed 0.1% to 154.71 per dollar, after plumbing another fresh low of 154.85 overnight. The diverging rate outlook between the U.S. and the Europe has weighed on the euro, which was pinned at $1.0659, nearing a five-month low of $1.0601 hit last week. The pound was marginally higher by 0.03% against the USD at $1.2351. The Indian rupee opened unchanged at 83.36/37 against its previous session’s close of also 83.36/37 and is expected to trade between 83.30 – 83.45 band today.
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